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Beat Saber

Beat Games · 2019-05-21

SteamPlayStation Store

Indie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Auditory, Virtual Reality

Releases: Nov 20, 2018 (PlayStation VR), May 24, 2023 (PlayStation VR2), May 21, 2019 (SteamVR), May 01, 2018 (Windows Mixed Reality), May 01, 2018 (Oculus Rift), Oct 13, 2020 (Meta Quest 2)

Beat Saber is a VR rhythm game where you slash the beats of adrenaline-pumping music as they fly towards you, surrounded by a futuristic world.

Beat Saber is an Indie game priced at $19.99 released in 2019, with an estimated 2,000,000 to 5,000,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive sentiment (95% of 76,310 reviews).

252
playing now
95%
positive of 76k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
118
twitch viewers (latest)
8.4
viewers/channel (concentration)
85/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
85/100
IGDB user rating (191 ratings)
13
Nexus mods (48k downloads)
4.67★
PlayStation Store rating (27,671 ratings)
86/100
opencritic · mighty · 91% recommend · from 34 critics
12h
to beat · rushed 1h · completionist 1h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$19.99
steam price (US)

252 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Beat Saber is a virtual reality rhythm game developed by Beat Games. The game was originally published by Beat Games before the studio was acquired by Oculus Studios in 2019. It takes place in many different surrealistic neon environments and features the player slicing blocks representing musical beats with a pair of brightly colored sabers. Following an early access release on May 1, 2018, the game was fully released for PlayStation 4 and Windows on May 21, 2019, and for the Meta Quest in standalone mode.

Trailer

Beat Saber trailer thumbnail

Release Trailer | Beat Saber

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 252 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,183 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~148/week).
  • · Review velocity down 24% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (4,532 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 49,583 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.9M–4.6M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 76,409 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $14.99 at Steam (2026-09-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4.4k4.4k20182026Week of 2018-05-01: 3,099 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 891 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 574 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 452 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 314 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 326 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1,850 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 566 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 653 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 404 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 674 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 109 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 387 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 160 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 509 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1,823 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 79 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1,950 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 268 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 240 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 534 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 4,448 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 84 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2,940 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2,391 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1,303 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1,392 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1,409 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1,278 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1,079 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1,144 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1,225 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 888 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1,317 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 178 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1,265 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1,287 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1,861 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1,235 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1,460 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1,170 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1,160 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 104 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 911 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 928 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 754 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 767 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 83 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 719 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 838 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 964 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 79 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1,094 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 811 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 888 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 693 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 706 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 597 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 655 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 541 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 400 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 392 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 560 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 465 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 614 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 420 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 471 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 413 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 396 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 348 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 332 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 330 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 246 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 311 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 356 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 366 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 470 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 342 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 296 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 268 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 280 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 260 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 271 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 238 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 199 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 312 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 265 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 244 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 187 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 218 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 141 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 181 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 143 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 247 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 181 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 199 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 143 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 146 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 9 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

6672002026-09-15 11:00 — 246 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 349 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 247 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 362 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 518 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 290 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 200 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 552 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 539 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 396 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 447 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 462 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 255 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 536 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 667 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 301 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 380 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 488 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 330 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 520 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 653 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 346 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 252 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2.1k0Feb 2018Aug 2026Feb 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Jun 2018 — avg 916 · peak 1,522Sep 2018 — avg 916 · peak 1,483Dec 2018 — avg 1,532 · peak 3,800Mar 2019 — avg 1,470 · peak 2,846Jun 2019 — avg 1,386 · peak 2,249Sep 2019 — avg 1,346 · peak 2,444Dec 2019 — avg 1,817 · peak 4,395Mar 2020 — avg 1,635 · peak 3,018Jun 2020 — avg 1,476 · peak 2,519Sep 2020 — avg 1,418 · peak 2,548Dec 2020 — avg 1,704 · peak 4,062Mar 2021 — avg 1,819 · peak 3,379Jun 2021 — avg 1,295 · peak 2,189Sep 2021 — avg 1,062 · peak 1,907Dec 2021 — avg 1,299 · peak 3,245Mar 2022 — avg 1,114 · peak 2,065Jun 2022 — avg 955 · peak 1,564Sep 2022 — avg 784 · peak 1,366Dec 2022 — avg 853 · peak 2,060Mar 2023 — avg 794 · peak 1,503Jun 2023 — avg 655 · peak 1,085Sep 2023 — avg 557 · peak 997Dec 2023 — avg 783 · peak 1,918Mar 2024 — avg 679 · peak 1,196Jun 2024 — avg 590 · peak 1,004Sep 2024 — avg 471 · peak 850Dec 2024 — avg 535 · peak 1,227Mar 2025 — avg 503 · peak 925Jun 2025 — avg 432 · peak 738Sep 2025 — avg 373 · peak 689Dec 2025 — avg 449 · peak 1,032Mar 2026 — avg 388 · peak 672Jun 2026 — avg 333 · peak 533Aug 2026 — avg 324 · peak 532
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
772026-09-232026-10-142026-09-23: 5 new positive2026-09-24: 4 new positive2026-09-24: 1 new negative2026-09-25: 3 new positive2026-09-25: 4 new negative2026-09-26: 7 new positive2026-09-27: 2 new negative2026-09-28: 2 new positive2026-09-29: 3 new positive2026-09-30: 4 new positive2026-10-01: 7 new positive2026-10-01: 2 new negative2026-10-03: 6 new positive2026-10-03: 1 new negative2026-10-04: 2 new positive2026-10-04: 1 new negative2026-10-05: 7 new positive2026-10-05: 1 new negative2026-10-07: 1 new positive2026-10-07: 2 new negative2026-10-08: 1 new positive2026-10-08: 3 new negative2026-10-09: 4 new positive2026-10-09: 1 new negative2026-10-11: 5 new positive2026-10-12: 4 new positive2026-10-12: 1 new negative2026-10-13: 1 new positive2026-10-13: 1 new negative2026-10-14: 4 new positive2026-10-14: 1 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$29.99$19.992018-05-022026-08-112018-05-02 — best price $19.992018-08-17 — best price $19.992018-09-20 — best price $19.992019-05-22 — best price $29.992026-08-11 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

276722026-06-02 — 107 pageviews2026-06-06 — 119 pageviews2026-06-10 — 91 pageviews2026-06-14 — 112 pageviews2026-06-18 — 103 pageviews2026-06-22 — 109 pageviews2026-06-26 — 117 pageviews2026-06-30 — 89 pageviews2026-07-04 — 107 pageviews2026-07-08 — 109 pageviews2026-07-12 — 97 pageviews2026-07-16 — 124 pageviews2026-07-20 — 100 pageviews2026-07-24 — 176 pageviews2026-07-28 — 123 pageviews2026-08-01 — 113 pageviews2026-08-05 — 111 pageviews2026-08-09 — 106 pageviews2026-08-13 — 129 pageviews2026-08-17 — 91 pageviews2026-08-21 — 115 pageviews2026-08-25 — 113 pageviews2026-08-29 — 110 pageviews2026-09-02 — 72 pageviews2026-09-06 — 97 pageviews2026-09-10 — 149 pageviews2026-09-14 — 171 pageviews2026-09-18 — 123 pageviews2026-09-22 — 225 pageviews2026-09-26 — 163 pageviews2026-09-30 — 109 pageviews2026-10-04 — 136 pageviews2026-10-08 — 111 pageviews2026-10-12 — 97 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

633132026-09-30 22:34 — 110 viewers2026-10-01 07:34 — 31 viewers2026-10-01 16:34 — 147 viewers2026-10-02 01:34 — 73 viewers2026-10-02 10:34 — 36 viewers2026-10-02 19:34 — 188 viewers2026-10-03 04:34 — 198 viewers2026-10-03 13:34 — 130 viewers2026-10-03 22:34 — 137 viewers2026-10-04 07:34 — 119 viewers2026-10-04 16:34 — 256 viewers2026-10-05 01:34 — 355 viewers2026-10-05 11:34 — 116 viewers2026-10-05 20:34 — 130 viewers2026-10-06 05:34 — 31 viewers2026-10-06 14:34 — 166 viewers2026-10-06 23:34 — 354 viewers2026-10-07 09:34 — 81 viewers2026-10-07 18:34 — 162 viewers2026-10-08 03:34 — 159 viewers2026-10-08 12:34 — 157 viewers2026-10-08 21:34 — 118 viewers2026-10-09 06:34 — 39 viewers2026-10-09 15:34 — 106 viewers2026-10-10 00:34 — 157 viewers2026-10-10 09:34 — 77 viewers2026-10-10 18:35 — 158 viewers2026-10-11 03:34 — 136 viewers2026-10-11 12:34 — 199 viewers2026-10-11 21:34 — 131 viewers2026-10-12 06:34 — 164 viewers2026-10-12 15:34 — 192 viewers2026-10-13 00:34 — 29 viewers2026-10-13 09:34 — 75 viewers2026-10-13 18:34 — 182 viewers2026-10-14 03:34 — 560 viewers2026-10-14 12:34 — 140 viewers2026-10-14 21:34 — 118 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
81.3%
earned "Pure"
12.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPTracked Controller SupportVR OnlySteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing270 DLC

6 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean

Post-launch support: 100 DLC released, first 2019-03-14, latest 2026-08-27 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)55,7673%26
PS4, PS VR (PlayStation)26,6195%27
PS5, PS VR2 (PlayStation)8,1485%27

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

VRIndieMusicActionRhythmSportsModdableDifficultSwordplayFast-Paced

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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